Perspectives

Multi-Racial Land: A Racist Christmas Song
By wchung | 07 Jun, 2026

Let's not forget those who give meaning to our lives this special season.

Ducks sit on a frozen pond on the snow-covered campus of the University of Nevada in Reno, Nev. on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal, Andy Barron)

In the spirit of the season I wanted to remember those special people who give meaning to our lives but are too modest to take the credit they deserve. But then of course they know who they are, so names aren’t really necessary.

So break out the karaoke machine and sing it to the tune of one of my favorite Christmas songs, Winter Wonderland:

Asians sing — are you listening?
In our eyes hate is glistening.
We grudge them the right —
We’re hateful tonight,
Sulking in a multi-racial land.

Gone away is our old world,
Here to stay is a new world.
It feels so damn wrong,
And makes us less strong —
Living in a multi-racial land.

In the shadow we can build a straw man,
And pretend that we are brave and grand.
When they ask us are you daring, we’ll say, “Sure are —
Cause we utter racial slurs from afar.

Later on we’ll conspire,
As we dream by the fire,
To face unafraid, a real Asian man
And say something racist to his face.

In the shadow we can build a straw man,
And pretend that he’s the real clown.
We’ll have lots of fun with mister straw man,
Until reality comes rudely back around.

Man, it blows, ain’t it dazin’,
When the boss happens to be Asian,
We’ll grovel and scheme the racist way,
Hating in a multi-racial land.

12/8/2009, 3:32 AM